Charlie Rose

BrockPowers  10/16/2012 07:10 PM Report

and after 4 years, we still know NOTHING about Obama. except the fact that he is a Muslim (check the ring on his finger). he lied about that. his past is still a secret. he intentionally buried that. his past is a total fabrication. he is a socialist. he is a Constitution transgressor. he is a cover up artist. he never tells the truth. every move of his is a cover up. the lefty media does not vet him. they don't care. he gets away with destroying your a my rights every day. nobody questions him. and yet, they still know nothing about him.

flash  11/11/2008 01:14 PM Report

OK, I heard the short edits by Rush and I listened to the complete conversation between Charlie and Tom. Same result. We don't know anything about Obama - or at least the mainstream media are not talking about what IS known about this Chicago thug.

CaresaboutCountry  11/11/2008 08:36 AM Report

For all of you who listened to Rush Limbaugh, you should probably actually watch this instead of simply repeating what you hear. The quotes from Rush were completely taken out of context. Sentences were even split and mashed back together. You consider that Journalism? I consider that propaganda.

Mugsy  11/10/2008 11:46 PM Report

The failure to investigate and tell the truth about Obama are, to me, crimes of omission for which WE will pay dearly, maybe more than anyone even imagines.

TO COMMENT BY TOM BROKAW: Thanks so much for the bit - stressing how much you want to be a jernalist. Funniest thing I've read lately I laughed so hard the dog came in to see what was going on. You should write a book.

George Teague  11/10/2008 10:42 PM Report

I did not watch the program; I heard about the conversation between Mr. Rose and Mr. Brokaw about a week later (on Rush Limbaugh). So, now, I read the comments. So many of them mirror my thoughts. How can these two men who must be paid so well for their epertise confess to know nothing about a person who could (now is) be the President of the United States? Really sad. Just goes to show that if these truly know so little, then those who voted for Sen Obama knew nothing. Again, really sad. I just can not find words to accurately describe my feelings about how the media let this country down by not giving us the information about the candidate. I am disappointed in both.

Balack Olama  11/09/2008 07:07 PM Report

Had Brokaw said "What is for certain Charlie is Barack Obama is bringing change to America," like a good toady, Obama supporters would have swooned. The segment of Obama's supporters who are subject to delusions of grandeur and derangement are questioning the integriyy of Brokaw now. I am glad Brokaw is honest. "I don't know" is a perfectly acceptable answer. Most of the people voting for Obama voted for "Change"; they have no clue of Obama's positions.

Tom Brokaw  11/09/2008 05:35 AM Report

But I like to Pweetend I'm a jernalist. I've got all the toys and powitical infwooence... I want to be a jernalist! A jernalist!... Why can't I be a jernalist! A SERIOUS one?!------------- NO NO NO! I'm not getting out of this chair! It's my chair! Damn it.... No, you go fishing, I'm tired of fishing. I want to be an ANCHOR MAN! A JOURNALIST!

realwest  11/09/2008 01:01 AM Report

You know you folks are really being unfair to Tom Brokaw. I mean he's an ANCHOR man - he just reads the news to us - it's not as if he were a journalist or something!

Alice  11/08/2008 10:18 PM Report

Thanks so very much for this conversation with Tom Brokaw! He has been my personal hero since his nightly news segments entitled "The Fleecing of America." He is amazingly knowledgeable about news worthy events; however, I was stunned that he knows nothing about Obama. I am a 69-year old female African-American that did not vote for Obama. I felt it was more important to say "thank you" to Senator John McCain for his outstanding service for our country. I can still hear President Kennedy's words (Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country). I am a registered independent voter, so that there is not - for me - an emotional attachment to either political party. I, personally, think that most Americans should register as independents.

Celeste Arzuaggah  11/08/2008 10:15 PM Report

White guilt and mediocrity. What a disgrace !

Woopi Goldburger  11/08/2008 08:55 PM Report

Tom, you are worse than scum. You helped get this idiot elected and now you better stand by him. No one respects you.

PhilMB  11/08/2008 04:43 PM Report

This interview does nothing to disabuse my view that the Media is populated by self-serving, egoistical, pandering Maggots; fly larvae who's only job is to destroy and corrupt healthy systems and drag them into the muck and mire of their own decadent slime. The editorial offices and J-Schools need to be flushed after disinfection with a flame-thrower. The casting of blame onto McCain, for not bringing forth at the debates those questions the Media should have been asking at the start of Obama's run for the Oval Office, and their willful blindness at the corrupt machinations of the convention denying Hillary a fair vote, is purely despicable. There will be some type of revolution in the near future; I know not what form it may take, but I would hope that the first entities that are put to ground are those in the Media, with the Liar-wers [sic\ and Lobbyists piled on top.

Tom Brokaw  11/07/2008 08:08 AM Report

Face it Liddy. I'm just too sophisticated for you. Everything I say, just fuh-wise right over your head.--------- Now if yool excuse me, I have some childeren books to write.

Gordon Liddy  11/07/2008 06:34 AM Report

What "anchor man ego"?. Your just a "boy", a "chump".

Tom Brokaw  11/07/2008 04:09 AM Report

Everybody STOP blaming me! Have you been living under a rock?! I'M RETIRED!!!... Now get off my case! This internet is having a negative effect on my "anchor man ego". How come Cronkite doesn't have to put up with this shit?!... I think awl go back to my sanctuary and realign my thoughts and make periodic suggestions on how the worrulld can save it's self from it's self. But then again, why I give a shit?. I'm almost outta here anyway... Let it burn... What have they done to my ego?! My ego! MY EGO!... MY!... E... GOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

Waynester  11/06/2008 10:47 PM Report

It's too bad nobody, you know, sent a reporter out to find out who he is and what his views are. Now we have to find out the hard way. Thanks a pantload, Tom

Ruth Mallek  11/06/2008 07:55 PM Report

Tom,how can we trust you? You did not do your journalist best to learn about a man who is about to be President of the United States.

Can we say that you were in the pocket of Barak Hussain Obama ?

When you were the moderator for the second debate, between Senator McCain and Senator Obama, you did miserably. The questions that you chose were weak. Sorry, Tom, I have lost all respect for you.

dknapp  11/06/2008 05:48 PM Report

Tom Brokaw: I thought you were a moderator for one of the presidential debates? These issues are ones MSM unmercifully reported that the Republican VP nominee lacked; the same questions were never investigated (ignored) with regard to the Democratic presidential nominee, now President-elect. To have these questions unanswered five days before the election demonstrates how terribly mainstream media broke trust with its public.

Congratulations President-elect Obama. Shame on you mainstream media; you know Sarah Palin's dress size, but you do not know what Barak Obama's worldview is.

Kay Peck  11/06/2008 04:34 PM Report

Mr. Brokow:

I listened to your conversation with Charlie Rose and gasped in disbelief. You had the nerve to sit there and say what you said. You had over 20 months to be a journalist. You dig on both sides to get the truth, not just one.

The media has always thought that they control this country, never mind the government.

You persuaded people that he was the one, without checking ANYTHING about him.

You reap what you sow. You have seen over the last month what the Obama machine will do to people that disagree with him.

I remember the press bashing whoever the president was for the last 35 years. Do you honestly think Obama will take it like the other presidents did? He'll squash the press so hard they won't know what happened to them.

Tom Brokaw  11/06/2008 03:31 PM Report

Excuse me, did you just call me liberal?. Is that a metaphor, that my fly is down?... Wah-eye-ool have you know, I'm right down the middle buster. Right down the middle! That's why I'm always TORN. Take the 1968 Democratic Convention for example, half of me felt so sad for the peace activist hippies getting their heads bashed in by the establishment. And the other half of me wanted the cops to hit those damn hippy mongers harder. I was TORN! TORN! I tell you! TTTTTOOOOORRRRRNNNNN!!!!!!!! Wah-eye won't anybody buhweev me.

sock puppet  11/06/2008 01:55 PM Report

Patricia and One_A: Please tell us what you really think. Your reticence is unbecoming a citizen and denizen of liberty. Holding back is not healthy.

Patricia DeFazio  11/06/2008 01:39 PM Report

Who are you kidding? You report, you search out, you get the facts and then you change them and manipulate. You knew all things concerning Barack Hussein Obama! You knew all along, you Liberals all had a clue and agenda. God help us all for what you media people allowed to come to pass. You sold out America for 30 pieces of silver! You have truly deceive many, but NOT ALL. You think you have NO ACCOUNTABILITY for this??? You are all accountable to God, who sees and know all things and IS STILL KING OVER ALL THE EARTH! Shame on all who have participated concerning this election. How do you people like you sleep at night? Not well I'm sure.

One_American  11/05/2008 06:04 PM Report

***

ROSE: I don't know what Barack Obama's worldview is.

BROKAW: No, I don't either.

ROSE: I don't know how he really sees where China is.

BROKAW: We don't know a lot about Barack Obama and the universe of his thinking about foreign policy.

ROSE: I don't really know. And do we know anything about the people who are advising him?

BROKAW: You know that's an interesting question.

ROSE: He is principally known through his autobiography and through very aspirational (sic) speeches, two of them.

BROKAW: I don't know what books he's read.

ROSE: What do we know about the heroes of Barack Obama?

BROKAW: There's a lot about him we don't know.

***

Honestly, Charlie - you Liberals, Tom Brokaw included - are the most intellectually challenged buffoons on the planet.

Time will tell if you and the rest of the Liberal Press have really destoyed America beyond repair - but you will pay for your underhanded dealings with the public.

Chuck Staples  11/04/2008 06:46 PM Report

" Are you kidding me?? "We don't really know who Obama is"...You two are representatives of the news? Here's a newsflash - THE ELECTION IS IN 4 DAYS..SHOULDNT WE HAVE BEEN ASKING WHO IS BARACK OBAMA BEFORE NOW? To hear them go back and forth is hilarious! "Uhh I don't know who he is" "No, we don't really know"....both of them should crawl under a rock! "

Well, if you don't know who the person is or what they represent, don't vote for them.

Audacity of Stupidity  11/04/2008 11:06 AM Report

It won't be too long now before we all really know what Obama's politics, beliefs, and world view is. HOPEfully he really is the messiah he keeps saying he is.

E.Patrick Mosman  11/03/2008 05:07 PM Report

The apparent lack of any knowledge of who Barack H. Obama is, what he stands for, who his heros are by you and Mr. Brokaw and the misnamed MSM is absolute proof of the pro-Obama, anti-McCain journalists failure to report any of the negative information that is available on all of details in BHO's past. His friends, advisers, heroes, counselers are known,Ayers, Wright, Alinsky, "Frank a well documented communist and many others leftist academics.What he stands for is a socialistic spread the wealth big governemnt, tax those who earn, give it to those who don't calling it a tax cut when it is welfare and a truly anti-military administration. When a sucker buys a pig in a poke he finds a rock when he open the poke. The democrats chose a candidate in a poke and when the poke is opened out comes a socialist/Marxist.

jimmbbo  11/03/2008 03:29 PM Report

I find it profoundly disturbing that with less than a week to a Presidential election, one of America's most experienced senior national newsmen and a long time "A-list" professional interviewer knew nothing of Obama's politics, beliefs or world view. Hey, big time newsguys! Maybe some time in the last 20 months you could have sent a reporter to... hmm.... lessee.... do some reporting?!

Preston  11/03/2008 03:17 PM Report

You are correct Charlotte. I think they think like that because Obama and his generation represents the caboose, the ones in the back... Or stuck in the middle.

Charlotte   11/03/2008 01:49 PM Report

A minor point, I've heard this quoted from a few pundits-including Mr. Brokaw, that Barack Obama is not a baby boomer. He is- boomers were born between 1946 & 1964. Obama was born in 1961. Makes him a boomer.

Impressed Nostrildomis  11/03/2008 01:31 PM Report

Hey! I'm on your side. Oh Yes! I truly believe you're Julius Cesar... NO! Not the bad one. The good one. Yes.

Lance Dugger  11/03/2008 11:50 AM Report

Mercifully we now can almost see the end of this latest political season. Just in time too. I was about to retch from the profusion of inane, ignorant racist rants given voice on this site. Maybe these views will evaporate into the vacuum of complacency which usually follow such displays of democratic excess. Let us hope so, and also pray that we will all have profited from this extraordinary experience.

Fred, NJ  11/03/2008 06:06 AM Report

Charlie love your show, but you are missing the boat on Obama. The simplest measure of Obama is the performance of his home district in IL.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IL-01

This area has had Black Democratic representation since 1929. The district has not elected a Republican to Congress since 1932. Why have Dems' best efforts still left the area in poverty, especially since the data are skewed by having at least 2 rich neighborhoods which are full of talented political activists?

"The 1st District's median household income as of 2000, $37,222, trailed the national average by 11.4%, the unemployment rate (7.6%) was more than double the national rate, and nearly 20% of district residents were living in poverty." The most charitable conclusion I can draw from this is that Obama's work is ineffective in reducing poverty, the least charitable conclusion is that he and his friends need a base of poverty to power their political goals, I'm sorry to say.

Jane Schuler-Repp  11/02/2008 10:07 PM Report

I am appalled that Brokaw is asked asked his opinion about Afghanistan and US foreign policy, as if he is an "expert" on the matter after having embedded himself with some military battalion. If he had embedded himself with many Afghan families I would feel more comfortable about the weight of his opinion. To Brokaw's credit, however, he does come up with some non-military initiatives, like setting up locally placed international "peace corps types". After having lived and worked in developing countries for over 20 years, including Afghanistan, what most people including Brokaw fail to recognize is the snails'-pace progress of change and the unwillingness of donor countries to demand instant results. Witness something rather obvious in the U.S. -- smoking. How long has it been since the first Surgeon General's report? People's habits, perceptions and cultures change slowly and from the inside out, not the outside in.

sock puppet  11/02/2008 03:00 PM Report

As a counterpoise, however, I know too much re Jingo John. His erratic excitability about too many things but in particular the Georgia-Russia dustup dropped his presidential stock with me. The next poor bastard's got a different deck - and it's stacked. Our bluff and bluster will be called (a la Biden's prediction) in the next 4-8 years and our diminished role economically and militarily says our standard arrogance wont travel well. A more measured, reasoned response will serve us better long term than a preemptive strike: verbal or military. Jingo-John's gunslinger DNA doesn't react that way. Just maybe Obama's arrogance re his eloquence might jawbone us out of our next test instead of shooting our way out. We can't afford the bullets. School-yard-bully-exposed syndrome. In short ignorance (may be) bliss.

sock puppet  11/02/2008 02:36 PM Report

Hey John you oughta be a writer for SNL. Good schtick!

John Chavous  11/02/2008 02:51 AM Report

"I say old bean, who is this "O'Bama" fellow we keep hearing about?"

"Hmmmm, no idea."

"Well, I heard he was running for President of the United States!"

"Really? Do go on."

"Yes. Not really sure what else there is to tell, though. Not sure what he believes in or wishes to accomplish. Can't really say what sort of people he admires or what influences him. He did go to Harvard, I hear."

"Harvard you say? Well, he's obviously executive material at least."

"True. Still, rather a blank slate in most other respects."

"Hmmm... Maybe some "journalist" or another should look into it one day."

"Yes, quite. Know any?"

My God. I feel sick.

PSingh  11/01/2008 07:44 PM Report

I'm tired of the election coverage and all the pandering that candidates are engaged in. Time to punch 'em I say:

http://joesixpackismad.blogspot.com/

Robert Burkhart  11/01/2008 04:55 PM Report

FDR did take a step back and wait position following his 1932 election -- but, remember too, FDR didn't take office until March 4, 1933 -- 4 months after the election. That is precisely why the inauguration date was moved up to January.

Special message for Charlie Rose and Tom Brokaw  11/01/2008 03:48 PM Report

The Man In The Glass.----------------------- When you get what you want in your struggle for self, And the world makes you long for a day, Just go to the mirror and look at yourself, And see what THAT man has to say. For if it is not your father or mother or wife Whose judgment upon you must pass. The fellow whose verdict counts most in your life Is the one staring back in the glass. Some people might think you are a straight shootin' chum and call you a wonderful guy, But the man in the glass says you're only a bum, If you can't look him straight in the eye. He's the fellow to please, never mind all the rest, For he's with you dear up to the end. And you have passed your most dangerous, difficult test. If the guy in the glass is your friend. You may fool the whole world down the pathway of years, and get pats on the back as you pass. But your final reward will be heartaches and tears. If you have cheated the man in the glass.

Roy Fassel  11/01/2008 03:46 PM Report

This interview is a classic example of the current demise of the media. For Charlie Rose and Tom Brokaw to say with a straight face that they know very little about Obama, but with no hesitation, are deeply in the tank for this empty suit is laughable. I am sure they both get a sensational thrill running up their leg talking about the Empty Suit. When McCain picked Sarah Palin as his running mate, she had something like a 80% approval rating in Alaska. The press, in droves, went up to Alaska to look under every rock, in every trash can and troll the newspaper archives to find every negative comment ever recorded in Alaska about Palin. By Tuesday, the media of America will have documented every utterance of disapproval of the 20% who disapproved of her efforts in Alaska. Yet, some newspaper had not one, repeat, not one dateline out of "South Chicago" which looked into Obama’s history. For the record, every past association in Obama’s adult life is there to see and expose to the voters of America. The press did not go "to see." Yet the Charlie Roses and Tom Brokaws looked the other way. For those who want to know the real thinking of Obama and his adult associations, two quotes tell you all you need to know. Quote One---------"To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists." --------------Quote Two--------in 2001---------------- OBAMA: If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court, I think where it succeeded was to invest formal rights in previously dispossessed people, so that now I would have the right to vote. I would now be able to sit at the lunch counter and order as long as I could pay for it, I’d be OK.----------------- But the Supreme Court """""never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth"""", and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society. To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as its been interpreted and Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. (It) Says what the states can’t do to you. Says what the Federal government can’t do to you, but doesn’t say what the Federal government or State government must do on your behalf, and that hasn’t shifted and one of the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was, um, because the civil rights movement became so court-focused I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change. In some ways we still suffer from that.” ---------------------------------Barack Obama has been associated with radical left winged people his whole life, including his adult life. An Obama presidency, with this current group in Congress, will move this country away from capitalism toward socialism (called by other names in earlier times!) so quickly, that there will be no turning back. Rose and Brokaw should be ashamed of themselves for not doing their homework. They should be ashamed of themselves for being this dishonest. They can’t be this stupid. Therefore, they are dishonest.------------------------ A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. Alexis de Tocqueville------------------- The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. Alexis de Tocqueville-----------------Shame on Charlie Rose and Brokaw.

Preston  11/01/2008 01:57 PM Report

Let me guess Lance, you attended Howard Dean Charm Fool I mean School.

MotherLodeBeth  11/01/2008 01:47 PM Report

PBS Frontline did a show a few weeks ago about McCain and Obama and the thing that stuck out was folks who worked with Obama before he ran for the Senate and after, said the game plan was get him elected, but dont take any stand on anything serious that could leave a paper trail, and then after a year annouce you are running for President. This seemed so at odds with him being pushed as a 'leader' since a REAL leader takes a stand on issues, and doesnt avoid voting on something simply because its a heated issue. Then he went back on his word to take public financing. ---------- This all troubles me, because if a man isnt as good as his word, what good is he? Does he govern by putting his finger in the air? -------------And why has the media been so damn easy on him? They NEVER call him on his wishy washy words. ---------- The media loves Obama because he's something new. And they no longer are the News Media, but the pop media.

Lance Dugger  11/01/2008 01:25 PM Report

To all the idiots looking to this show to give them the goods on either of these cantidates, wake up!! It's your responsibility to form opinions on the worthiness of each cantidate, assessing information available from many sources, rating its veracity using that thing behind your eyes called a brain. Rose and Brokaw are only good for giving you an excuse to do what you were going to do anyway. And finally your decisions about who and what as well as your opinions of why and when are really only relevent to you so spare me the benefit of your genius--go vote tuesday and pray we don't have to suffer through another eight years of our consequential ignorance.

"the people..."  11/01/2008 01:14 PM Report

Here’s Obama in his own words to the Chicago Sun-Times on November 4, 2004: “I was elected yesterday. . . . I have never set foot in the U.S. Senate. I’ve never worked in Washington. And the notion that somehow I’m immediately going to start running for higher office just doesn’t make sense. So look, I can unequivocally say I will not be running for national office in four years, and my entire focus is making sure that I’m the best possible senator on behalf of the people of Illinois. . . . I am not running for president in 2008.”

Within two years, that promise gave way to personal aspirations; Obama has, in fact, spent more time running for a higher office than serving... http://www.city-journal.org/2008/eon1028ke.html

Speaking of France......

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is very critical of U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama’s positions on Iran, according to reports that have reached Israel’s government.

Sarkozy has made his criticisms only in closed forums in France. But according to a senior Israeli government source, the reports reaching Israel indicate that Sarkozy views the Democratic candidate’s stance on Iran as “utterly immature” and comprised of “formulations empty of all content.”

Anne Suire  11/01/2008 01:01 PM Report

Every time i see Tom Brokaw on TV, I cannot help thinking about the Iraq war & how Brokaw was so obnoxious regarding France's stand, because the French president did not want to go to war. " Bomb France!". Can Charlie Rose do better?. I would like to see on his shows people like John Perkins, whose book actually was #1 on the new York times best selling list... Way more interesting than Brokaw, who does not even know what he is talking about...

Maybe it's Maybelline  11/01/2008 07:35 AM Report

It's not like we're not honest. It's just that, isn't it just awful what the Caucacians did to the Negroids by forcing them to pick cotton for evil people like Mark Twain and General Lee. We, the media, think it be a nice jesture to let those poor negroids have a chance to sit on the throne for a "change". And then the negroids won't have an excuse to carry on and act like monkeys. I learned all that in Liberal 101. Which all you rednecks and uneducated should learn. Get educated people. Bad people. STOP hating the media! We work hard to get it right!

terri  11/01/2008 05:54 AM Report

Unbelievable. Why don't you send some honest reporters to find out about the Messiah. Oh I forgot, there are no honest reporters.

jia english  11/01/2008 02:17 AM Report

How interesting that this video has been removed. Isn't in amazing how that everything that casts even the slightest doubt on Obama disappears?

Bobby  11/01/2008 12:00 AM Report

Are you kidding me?? "We don't really know who Obama is"...You two are representatives of the news? Here's a newsflash - THE ELECTION IS IN 4 DAYS..SHOULDNT WE HAVE BEEN ASKING WHO IS BARACK OBAMA BEFORE NOW?

To hear them go back and forth is hilarious! "Uhh I don't know who he is" "No, we don't really know"....both of them should crawl under a rock!

Wessy  10/31/2008 11:23 PM Report

The books mentioned are: "American Lion," Meacham; "Five Days in London," Lukacs; "Troublesome Young Men," Olson; "Day of Battle" (and "Army at Dawn"), Atkinson; "Hot, Flat, and Crowded," Friedman; "Post-American World," Zakaria; and "One Minute to Midnight," Dobbs.